The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No.676
Sanctions
European sanctions the toughest blow against the clerical regime
Tehran, July 28, 2010
The new course of sanctions of EU is much broader than the sanctions imposed on the clerical dictatorship so far.
The EU has particularly banned investing in regime’s oil and gas industry by European countries.
The sanctions also contain equipments necessary for oil refinery.
This is the toughest blow at regime’s economy.
The clerical regime has very little ability in independently refining its oil and needs to import great amount of refined oil from abroad.
The consequences of these sanctions will be felt deeply in economy and society.
It is predicted that price of gas consuming vehicles will rise
Tehran, July 28, 2010
A sales manager of Iran Khodro said that as gasoline is rationed and people are not able to buy free gasoline it is highly possible that they try to buy gas consuming vehicles.
70% of requests for different vehicles is for gas consuming ones.
If the requests escalate more then there would be the issue of the fuel necessary and the price of these kinds of vehicles will rise too.
Crisis in production in Alborz Industrial Township
Qazvin, July 28, 2010
On July 23, laborers activist in Qazvin reported to ISC that in Alborz Industrial Township electricity is cut daily based on pre-determined schedule and the municipality sees to it to be done.
The activists said that this causes a great problem in production. This township has been facing many problems from before due to wrong policies of the clerical regime but cuts in electricity have intensified the crisis there.
Providing raw material is a challenge
Tehran, July 28, 2010
The report obtained by ISC from Abbas Abad Industrial Township shows that factories and production units are facing a great problem for providing their raw material.
Molding factories must pay the price for their raw material in cash even it the cash is provided it’s hard to obtain these raw materials.
The quality of the materials is poor and they have to work a few months and in some cases a year on them to make them ready to be used in production lines.
Four killed in blast
Bushehr, July 28, 2010
On July 27 in Khark Oil Enterprise 4 were torn to pieces because one of the boilers blasted.
The governor has said that the boilers were too old and that was the reason for blast.
All the equipments in the company are old and not standard and because of sanction regime of Iran has problem to import these kinds of equipments.
Workers fired in Shiraz dairy factory
Shiraz, July 28, 2010
On Saturday July 17 at least 20 workers of Shiraz Diet Dairy Factory were fired. One of these workers told ISC that this factory is suffering from problems and crises in all production and industrial units and ‘with the policies of current government these problems will increase daily’.
As the result all the workers without low class education and without especial expertise were fired.
The workers protests had no result.
The reaction of residents of Karaj and Qazvin in regard with increase in prices
Tehran, July 28, 2010
Reports obtained by ISC from Karaj and Qazvin show that although the price of general livelihood especially gasoline has risen due to sanction but people are in high spirit supporting the sanctions.
The Downfall
Khamenei ousted 250 commanders of IRGC
Tehran, July 29, 2010
Following the escalation of disputes within the clerical dictatorship ruling Iran, state-run news agencies announced that 250 of IRGC commanders have been retired because they had been affiliated with the defeated fraction.
It was for the first time that Jafari the head of IRGC admitted to duality within IRGC.
Jafari’s words being quoted by Fars News Agency is: “the leader of Islamic Republic formed an especial committee headed by his son Mojtab and retired 250 of IRGC commanders”.
In this committee Hossein Taeb the head of IRGC’s intelligence and Reza Naghdi the commander of Bassij and others who had role in the suppression of events after the election were present.
Some of these retired IRGC commanders are Brigadier Commanders Hossein Alavi, Hossein Dehghan, Mostafa Ajerloo, Morteza Ghorbani and others.
Mullah Janati absurdlyclaimed he has connections with Imam Zaman
Tehran, July 28, 2010
As people’s wrath and hatred towards this clerical dictatorship increases each day and having in mind the international isolation of Velayat-e-Faghih’s Establishment, Mullah Jananti, the secretary of Council of Guidance claimed that he is in connection with Imam Zaman (the last Imam of Shiite that will come in future) and said: “God has chosen Khamenei for leadership”.
He added: “thought the Establishment was almost overthrown several times but under the leadership of Khamenei it has survived”.
Warning against the continuation of the uprising
Tehran, July 28, 2010
Qolamhossein Elham, an ousted member of regime’s Council of Guidance expressed his concern of the continuation of the uprising and said: “We shouldn’t think that ‘sedition’ (the name regime calls the uprising) is over”.
ILNA news agency on July 26 quoted Elham, who was also the former spokesman of Ahmadinejad’s government, speaking amongst a group of regime’s mercenaries in Babolsar as: “the enemy was able to use people from amongst us to charge against Islamic Republic and to organize forces. These soldiers of the ‘soft-war’s’ warfront took steps against the Islamic Republic and this was an experience for the Revolution”.
He warned: “we should not forget these currents of sedition and they are not over...we must be wary about their new plans...”
Resistance
Call for saving lives of political prisoners in Iran
Tehran, July 29, 2010
Mr. Reza Joshan political prisoner in Gohardasht Prison, ward 6, who is on hunger strike since July 21 in protest to unbearable pressures imposed on the prisoners went into coma and the henchmen were thus forced to transfer him to a hospital out of prison. He is in critical condition now.
Reza 25 was arrested for the second time last December because his brother is a PMOI member residing in Ashraf City, Iraq. He went under the most severe tortures and was forced to ask for pardon from Khamenei which he resisted against and went on hunger strike. His mother, father and sister were formerly detained on the same charge and her mother is still in prison.
Khaled Hardani political prisoner on ward 4 of Gohardasht Prison is in critical condition. He too went on hunger strike in protest to the prison’s conditions since July 22.
Physical condition of Mr. Arjang Davoodi is also critical. He is a political prisoner kept in ward 3 of Gohardasht Prison beside dangerous criminals. He has been on hunger strike for two weeks and is now in critical condition. He has been in different prisons of Islamic Republic including Evin, Bandar Abbas and Gohardahst since mid-Fall of 2003 and he has been under most vicious tortures and pressures.
Students Committee in Iran demands immediate international action for saving the lives of political prisoners in Iran especially those in hunger strike.
Condition of family member of Ahsraf residents in jeopardy at regime’s prisons
Tehran, July 28, 2010
ISC demands an immediate action by international organs to save the lives of political prisoners in dungeons of clerical dictatorship;
Hasan Tarlani 23 and student, his mother and brother are PMOI members residing in Ahsraf City, Iraq. He has been transferred to Kerman and is kept amongst dangerous criminals. He has been beaten with the intention of killing him several times and transferred to prisons treatment section and is in critical condition.
Khaled Hardani was beaten in recent days by baton and transferred to solitary cells. He and other political prisoners have been threatened that they will be annihilated.
Hood Yazarloo 22 and student, is condemned to 3 years’ term because he had visited his relatives in Ahsraf. He was attacked by regime’s gangs at ward 4 of Gohardasht Prison on July 22 and is in critical condition due to the strokes on his head.
Ali Moezi 58, his daughters are in Ashraf City, imprisoned in ward 4 of Gohardash Prison is suffering from severe kidney problems. He has lost one of his kidneys due to tortures and the other kidney is infected because of tortures, contaminated water and lack of medical treatment during last 20 months.
Suppression
Political prisoner reports on appalling state of Gohardasht Prison;
For those who are willing to listen
Tehran- July 28, 2010
Dr. Saied Masouri, a PMOI political prisoner sentenced to life in prison is currently in Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj and has given a report on this prison.
The report is as follows:
Though it is probable that life seemingly goes on outside of prison, in Karaj no one can believe that a few meters away behind the walls of prison which people pass by, there is a hell and human catastrophe in progress. Just as many people were living around the Auschwitz and Dachau death camps and they might not have know what went on inside these camps.
I want to paint you a picture of the Rajayi Shahr Prison which seems very big for the residents of Karaj but is actually very small because of the mass crowds held inside. It seems as if it is a different world here. Something like hell in fictional movies filled with fire and smoke and blackened and unkempt faces, naked and sweaty bodies which have become red with lice bites, pants with one leg ripped off used as a makeshift belt, dirty bare feet, clothes that have been worn inside out because of lice, ripped rubber slippers, dirty and polluted air, the smell of rotten trash, the sewage coming from clogged toilets, dried vomit from food poisoning, mucus from infected throats which can be seen everywhere in prison, the smell of sweaty bodies which rarely have the privilege of taking a shower in this closed, hot and polluted space… All of this is completed with the smell of urine of those who cannot control themselves reaches. And the aggravating shouts and yells of prisoners waiting in long lines with blackened plastic bottles used as tea cups; prisoners waiting in long compressed lines for a turn in the bathroom, shower or …
Tired worn out faces, as a result of malnutrition, hidden under long beards and disheveled hair, irritant coughs from lung problems as a result of the closed atmosphere, unusual bodies which reminds a person of starving African children, scores of prisoners lying in the middle of the halls who have either fallen into a death like sleep or have been heat stricken and are staring with glassy eyes at the walls or ceiling. Or others, leaning naked on the walls, searching for the lice in their clothes.
Several other prisoners stand alone or in groups of two staring at others because they are unable to move around in the density of the prison or those who play with the stitches on their writs or throats which they have received as a result of suicide attempts. They usually have a piece of cloth or towel with them to wipe off the sweat from their face every few minutes which they sometimes use as a mask to fend off the pungent stench or at least make it a little more tolerable. All of this along with the deafening sounds of the loudspeakers and vulgar cursing which invite prisoners to follow their turns for the shower and toilets. All of this can be understood when you realize that in a place that has the capacity of 90 people, 1,100 people are detained. There is one shower for 250 people, 500 people have one soap, 170 people have one toilet (which is usually clogged up and filthy), five people have one cubic cm of space (that is why prisoners sleep in the hallways and staircases), 5 or 6 people share one blanket and are forced to stay out in the sun in the prison yard from 7am to 7pm because they do not fit in the cells or indoors. There is rarely any room to stand in the prison yard and when food is thrown in a piece of newspaper for many prisoners, they can find no other place than the prison yard to sit down and eat. This situation has even annoyed the prison guards because they cannot conduct a headcount and are also in danger of catching all kinds of diseases…
What is more amazing is that the TV (state-run TV inside prison) talks about human dignity, the stature of human beings and even global management from dawn to dusk but does not talk about these hardships in prison because talking about hygiene, showers and toilets is intertwined with national security and bringing it up is a crime in the lines of acting against national security and publishing lies and if someone like 22 year old political prisoner Reza Jushan who was arrested after the elections protests this condition, he is immediately thrown in solitary. Of course I expect nothing less, but the state of Rajayi Shahr Prison (and of course other prisons) is so appalling that solitary is no solution (for dissent) and therefore Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghuraib are like inaccessible dreams fro prisoners and the hope of execution is a far easier, prevalent and more accessible solution for escape from this condition.
Saied Masouri
Rajayi Shahr Prison in Karaj
Sudden communication cut off of political prisoners with families leads to concerns
Tehran- July 28, 2010
According to reports, families of political prisoner especially families of death row political prisoners have expressed serious concerns for the sudden cut off of all communications with their loved ones in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison.
All calls of political prisoners with their families have been cut off on orders of Ministry of Intelligence interrogators. This issue has led to concerns among families of political prisoners. Currently there are a number of death row political prisoners in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison. They are Jafar Kazemi, Mohammad-Ali Haj Aqayi, Mohsen Daneshpour Moqadam, and Ahmad Daneshpour Moqadam among others.
Unannounced curfew in Karaj
Tehran, July 29, 2010
At the anniversary of the massacre of political prisoners in 1988, and after the approval of the unilateral sanctions by EU an unannounced curfew was going on in Karaj in fear of an uprising.
Regime’s mercenaries established check points in Qazvin- Karaj route, around Melard Fardis and Andisheh, and at the entrance of Loshan and Majil tunnels.
Everything was searched.
37 journalists in prison under the clerical dictatorship’s rule
Tehran, July 28, 2010
At least 37 journalists are imprisoned in the Islamic Republic. We the Students Committee condemn the fact that journalists in Iran do not enjoy minimum freedom for reflecting the truth of Iran’s society.
We demand that international organizations take immediate action for their freedom and the conditions of journalists in Iran under the rule of mullahs.
Blocking VPN protocols for Iranians
Tehran, July 28, 2010
Because of regime’s filtering many of our compatriots are using VPN accounts to be able to connect of internet and to open filtered sites but recently the government and its communication system has limited these accounts for many ISP’s or service providers, which is an illegal act.
Workers of Iran
Workers of one of the enterprises affiliated with regime TV & Radio are collectively fired
Tehran, July 27, 2010
Takta Company (research and production company for electronic devices) affiliated with regime’s TV & Radio has started firing a great number of its employees. No official papers are given to these employees in that regard and Harasat has banned it. The officials have said that these workers ‘are lazy’ and that’s the reason they are fired!
The company wants to keep only 80 from 300 employees of this company.
Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)
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